HP A5120 Configuration

Today I am going to configure the HP A5120-24G EI Switch.

We require the COM1 Port on the system and console cable.

The pictures are shown below:

COM1:

Console Cable:

Or You can use converter like this to connect to your laptop USB port :

• Connect the cable to the console cable with your system and power on the switch
  
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and hit Enter

Press ENTER to get started, you will able to see like this:

<HPSWITCH>

#Apr 26 12:19:44:864 2000 HPSWITCH SHELL/4/LOGIN:

 Trap 1.3.6.1.4.1.25506.2.2.1.1.3.0.1: login from Console

%Apr 26 12:19:44:995 2000 HPSWITCH SHELL/5/SHELL_LOGIN: Console logged in from aux0.

<HPSWITCH>

<HPSWITCH>

As we know that the cisco having three stage to get into the switch console, just like same here.

user mode : >

privilege mode : #

and the global config mode: config#

same structures are here but little more differ from the Cisco

• here we have the user mode and system mode. As we know that the user mode having the only basic commands.
• System mode having the all configuration privileges.
• Cisco having the show command to check the configuration and here display command to check the configuration.
• but in the HP we have the more information in the display interface brief as compared with Cisco. let's check out :

CISCO SWITCH#sh ip int bri
Interface              IP-Address      OK? Method Status                Protocol
Vlan1                  192.168.20.253  YES manual up                    up
FastEthernet0/1        unassigned      YES unset  down                  down
FastEthernet0/2        unassigned      YES unset  up                    up
FastEthernet0/3        unassigned      YES unset  down                  down

we have the only information about the interface, IP, OK, Method status and protocol.

but in HP we have lots of more information:

like, Link, speed, duplex, type (Auto/Trunk/Hybrid). 

Really it's great, as compared with Cisco, and it's lots of functionality as well.

as shown here :

 Let's start the configuration:

I am assigning IP for Vlan 1, and try to ping test.

Now changing the host name and giving the default route:

  

Creating user and password and setting up the line vty.

Save and check the configuration :

Here running config know as the current-configuration, startup config known as saved-configuration and write known as the save.

                                               

and more interesting command are there to enjoy the troubleshooting part, will show you in the future post.

Thanks for reading, have a nice learning :)

                                              Demonstrated By:

                                               Naresh Mahato.